Gary Paulsen is famous for writing about adventure and endurance. He has published over one hundred and fifty books in his lifetime and has won many awards for his novels. Paulsen writes mostly for young adults, although he also has several books for adults. Paulsen is one of the greatest contemporary authors for young adults. .
Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Paulsen spent much of his early life in Minneapolis, which is the setting for many of his books. Paulsen became very sick when he was a child; he had respiratory infections and had pneumonia five times in the course of two years. His doctors thought that he was going to die, and it was a very scary experience for him. However, Paulsen did not die and lived to write about the incident in his book, The Madonna Stories (1988). .
Paulsen did not meet his father, Oscar Paulsen, until he was seven because he was away fighting in the Second World War. Paulsen's parents, Oscar and Eunice Paulsen, were not very good parents; and he was often left home alone while his parents were out drinking. Paulsen was forced to begin working at an early age, doing jobs like setting bowling pins and selling newspapers, in order to have enough money to buy himself clothes and food, which his parents did not supply him with. .
When Gary Paulsen was in high school, he experienced a turning point in his life. He was walking past the public library when the librarian asked him if he wanted a library card. He said yes; and when she asked him if he wanted to check out a book, he again said yes. The librarian gave him a book and told him to bring it back when he was done. Paulsen began reading books in the basement of his house. At first it took Paulsen about a month to read a book, but gradually he got to be a faster reader and was able to read two books in one week. As Paulsen later recalls, "When she handed me a library card, she handed me the world.
Survival is a theme in all of Paulsen's more than 100 books. And survival is something he knows well. He's lived in the wilderness with only a bow and arrow, sailed the ocean alone, killed bears and moose. It is Gary Paulsen's overwhelming belief in young people that drives him to write. His intense...
Born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gary Paulsen is the author of more than 40 books, 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays; primarily for Young Adults. Paulsen's interests in books and reading came when he was a teenager and walked into a library to escape the cold of a Minnesota winter. ... Reading helped Paulsen cope with a difficult family situation then and remains a constant in his life today. Much of Paulsen's work features outdoor settings showing the importance of ...
Harris and Me I read the book called "Harris and Me" written by Gary Paulsen. It is about a boy who has to come to stay on a farm with his relatives. He meets a cousin name Harris and experiences a lot of adventures and troubles. The main idea of the book is that farm life might be difficult but...
Courage, Determination, and Hunger? Thirteen year old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when his single engine airplane in which he is in crashes. This is the story line in the book called Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, a Newbery Honor Book. In the novel Hatchet, Brian Robeson shows that...
The title of my book is The Island by Gary Paulsen. The main character in this book is Wil Neuton. He is a 15-year-old boy who is 6 foot 2. Susan is also an important character in this novel, he meets her when he moves to northern Wisconsin. His dad got an offer to do his job there so his fami...
Hatchet The auther of my book is Gary Paulsen the main charicter is Brian Robinson the setting is in the Canadian wilderness. Hatchet is a book about a 13 year old kid named Brian who crash lands a plane in the Canadian wilderness and has to survive on his own. Brian is flying to Alaska to vi...
THE RIVER The River written by Gary Paulsen is a sequel to the book "The Hatchet." This book is about a boy named Brian Robeson who has survived months in the woods by himself and now goes back to the woods to show and teach people how to survive. Three men have come to Brian's hou...
Which of the three factors had the greatest impact on Chuck Noles Fate/ability to survive? First of all, I think this is two questions in itself. Chuck Noles Fate is determined by chance while his ability to survive is determined by his heredity. His intelligence ends up being one of the key tools i...
The Car My book was The Car ;Written By Gary Paulsen. My story was an adventure taking place in the early nineties in Cleveland, Ohio. Fourteen year old Terry Andrews experiences his inte...